While this site is called “Potty Training Girls”, much of what we talk about applies to boys as well. I actually struggled over the name, since it could just as well be called “Potty Training Toddlers”. However, I have two girls, and no boys. My girls were certainly toddlers once, however they never were boys – at least not in a literal sense!

That said, toilet training in general, whether it’s for girls or boys, really babies or toddlers in general, much of this information still applies. And so when I came across the article below, I figured it would be worthwhile posting here. If you find it valuable, or have anything to add (or subtract!), please feel free to let me know by commenting below. And in fact, you’re welcome to speak your mind on anything else besides the article – as long as it pertains to the whole potty training issue.

“Top Secrets To Potty Training Boys Using Easy Methods”
by Ellie Dotson

Many parents struggle with potty training their boy. Despite their best efforts, parents tend to find it much easier to potty train girls than boys. It seems like he always finds something more interesting to do, even if he knows how to use the potty. That’s why you’ll want to follow these tips to make your job that much easier.

The first thing you need to do is consider whether your little boy is actually ready to be potty trained. Being ready to potty train is absolutely key, or it just won’t happen. Trying to start before he is ready will just lead to a lot of frustration.

Is your child able to understand a lot of things? Does he let you know when he has to go to the bathroom? Demonstrating these things may mean he is ready.

Give him his own potty to try out! Get him familiar with it. Have him sit on the potty and relax and get to know it.

When he’s ready, you can show him what the potty is for. Toys, books, and videos about using the potty can be absolutely helpful.

One great method is to use a potty training doll. They make these for boys and for girls, and they really are phenomenal! He will “teach” this doll to use the potty. Teaching the doll will be very helpful for him. Since he can teach his doll and go himself, he will feel like a big boy. This may be the last step on his path to being potty trained.

Keep up with it, and he should train a lot more easily than you were expecting. Just don’t let yourself get frustrated. Doing these things can really speed things up! Stressing out will negatively effect you and your little one. It’s always best to keep things fun.

Because you are desperate to potty train your little one, you’ll definitely want to look into using a (http://pottytrainingdoll.net/) Potty Training Doll right away. It really can help to make things easier, and they are priced right.

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I though it was a good general article on toilet training. Remember, if you disagree, just let me know – in a cordial way, of course!

Potty training babies probably shouldn’t be done. It is wise to wait until the tiny things become toddlers before starting the process of potty training. The child needs to at least know how to speak, motion, stand up, and sit down before they can begin potty training so it is wiser to wait until they are toddlers.

However, as babies, whether you are potty training girls or boys, it is far different from the conception of toilet training toddlers that many people have. In fact, infant potty training doesn’t involve any effort, at least consciously, on your infant’s part at all. If you’ve ever wanted to know how mothers dispensed of diapers in the past or how other cultures were able to get rid of diapers so quickly, then just read on.

The basic tenets of infant potty training involve understanding your infant’s elimination body language, timing, patterns, and vocalizations. If you can familiarize yourself with all of these things, then you can partake of infant potty training. You must set aside doubts, fears, and cautions against infant potty training if you want to begin. The Western World is conditioned to fear any form of early toilet training. The prohibitions against infant potty training are really based on opinion and not scientific proof. Maturational readiness theories are folklore, opinions, and pseudoscience masquerading as science. Infant potty training is based on your child’s rhythms and communication between the mother and her baby.

Training a baby to potty train is just like training a dog or cat because it works on sound cues, muscle memory, and situational cues to let your infant know where you want him to go pee, poop, and when. If you anticipate that your infant needs to go, then make a watery sound like a ‘sssss’ or ‘pee pee’ sound. Then, use this sound every time you want your child to go the bathroom. Or, make this sound when your child is going the bathroom. He will then associate this sound when going to the bathroom with the process of elimination. Take your child to the same place every day to force through his elimination.

The best time to start potty training is at 4 to 5 months old. The average time that babies take to complete perfecting this process is 2 years. It is safe if parents have the right mind-set before approaching the dirty topic of infant potty training, pun intended. This really works with some effort.

Just work with cues, and your baby will be potty training in no time. Some cues that your baby may be ready to go to the bathroom include a fuss or cry before, during, or after elimination, grunt during the process of defecation, and unique toilet sounds that your baby makes when approaching the toilet.

Some body language that you can pay attention to with your child include tensing or stiffening of the body, assuming a piercing or imploring expression, squirming or awakening the mother, contracting the abdomen while in the midst of pushing, and patting or grabbing the crotch area.

Even a baby can learn. And for those of you lucky enough to be potty training girls, it happens much faster than boys!

For most parents, Potty training girls or boys – toddlers – is not something they look forward to. After all, who wants to have to deal with dirty diapers, soiled clothes – and sometimes rugs, cars, chairs, etc.? While the issue may have the additional issues of fear and insecurity for new “first-time” parents, even seasoned parents dread the idea.

Fortunately, training toddlers how to use a child potty seat, or toddler toiled seat, doesn’t have to be as difficult, traumatic, and long as most parents think it will be. As a rule, potty training for girls tends to happen sooner than it does for boys. For all you male chauvinists out there, well I don’t know what to tell you, other than that it is well documented. For whatever reason, girls seem to be able to develop this skill much quicker than boys do.

Part of the reason might be that boys have two “modes” to have to learn. Urinating for boys isn’t the same as learning the protocol for “number 2″. And as many parents know, few toddlers can really discern the difference between the two when they have to relieve themselves. They just have to go. So boys have to learn not only two different skills, but to be able to know the difference in what they’re feeling – even when what feels like a ’simple’ need to urinate might end up with both.

There are also a slew of products to help parents with their potty training period that weren’t available years ago. As a result, particularly for new or newer parents, they assume the toiled training will consist of mistakes followed by verbal instruction and reinforcement, followed by mistakes, followed by more verbal instruction, and on & on until something starts to catch on. In most parents minds, this might be a very, very long period!

The reality is that if begun at the right stage in their development, potty training toddlers doesn’t have to be a long, drawn-out timeframe. In fact, many parents who begin their training at the right time find that they can achieve at least partial success – meaning few and far between “accidents” in just a matter of a few months! This should come as some relief to those rearing babies that have this endless nightmare scenario in mind!

Whether you’re potty training girls, boys, or both, do your homework. Learn the stages at which to begin, follow through with consistency, and you’ll come out the other side realizing it wasn’t nearly as bad as had been assumed. And of course, once you’re done, you’re done. Until the next child…!

In any event, potty training toddlers isn’t a fun exercise, nor one any parent looks forward to. Fortunately, you can follow these tips to make it a bit easier and quicker. And of course, once you’ve successfully finished, you’re all done – forever!

Well, if it’s a consolation, it’s generally accepted to be easier potty training girls than it is boys. Not trying to be sexist here, but the facts are the facts!

Diapers may be one good solution if you can really bear a stinking room and are thinking of an easy yet expensive alternative. However, a more sensible approach would be to stop buying diapers and start off potty training your toddlers so that they can learn to mend for themselves early in life. This is surely not an easy task for any new mother but once accomplished, will help you mould into a careful, patient and loving mother.

Baby potty training and making the  transition to the toilet as smooth as possible requires your devoted patience and endurance and that’s how all parents should deal with their lovely toddlers. The toddler years are the right age for these young kids to learn things but always remember never to rush them off.

Before staring of potty training your kid you should try to evaluate your child’s readiness and see if he has acquired the verbal understanding and can readily follow you instructions and also try to determine if your child’s bladder and bowel are adequately developed. And when you are fully confident that your child is well prepared for potty training you should set of to buy potties, an anatomically controlled doll and vibrant colored underpants. Buy them in vibrant colors so that your child finds them attractive.

Start to toilet train the child’s doll or any of his favorite toys for that matter as it is the best way to grab his attention and get his utmost attention. This may sound funny, but adding stickers on the wall and praising the doll each time the doll uses the potty correctly will make you child feel that potty training is a happy and fun experience.
During the potty training process if your child accidently wets his pants, you should keep a cool head instead of scolding your child and discourage him by other means. Try to convince him to use a toilet seat the next time he needs to go, as a positive behavior is always known to work miracles in molding your child’s behavior.

Change you child’s wet pants with dry ones and at short intervals take him back to the potty to develop their muscle memory. This will condition his mind soon and will help him learn to use the Potty very quickly. Although potty training is an obvious necessity, it doesn’t have to be stressful as there are fun ways of teaching your child to learn it.

Potty training girls is neither fun nor easy, but it can be considerably easier if done at the proper time and stage of development.

The milestone of baby potty training begins by recognizing the skills and cognitive level your child has reached. Most pediatricians agree that children under the age of two have not developed to the point where they are ready to be toilet trained. Even if you see that your child has reached the state where he or she is aware when urination and defecation takes place, this does not mean that they are ready to be trained. Potty training is not a sort of trick that you can teach your child, in the same fashion as you might train an animal. Nor, is it an act that can be achieved solely by relying on reasoning, cajoling, or bribery. These mechanisms do have their place, but not until your child possesses both the necessary motor skills and communication level to use the toilet or potty consistently, as well as independently.

There are certain signs of development that parents can look for to recognize whether their child is ready to begin serious toilet training. As compared with two year olds, three year olds speak in 4-5 word sentences, rather than two word phrases. Two year old can follow simple, one-step commands, while three year olds have the ability to follow more complicated 2-3 step instructions. The obvious differences in maturity levels between the two age groups should be used as a guide as to whether your child is ready for potty training.

Because of the developmental differences, potty training girls may begin slightly earlier than little boys may. Just bear in mind that potty training toddlers is always going to be challenging, but you can make the “job” less difficult than it might otherwise be, and less stressful – for both parent and child – if you begin when your child is at the proper stage.

Written by Brenne Meirowitz